{"id":135,"date":"2016-11-13T21:08:55","date_gmt":"2016-11-13T21:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/?p=135"},"modified":"2016-11-16T17:38:17","modified_gmt":"2016-11-16T17:38:17","slug":"nodes-of-ranvier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/nodes-of-ranvier\/","title":{"rendered":"Nodes of Ranvier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<strong>Nodes of Ranvier<\/strong> are the regions on a myelinated <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/axon\/\">axon<\/a> between the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/myelin-sheaths\/\">myelin sheaths<\/a>. These regions contain\u00a0the <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/14\/voltage-gated-ion-channel\/\">voltage-gated ion channels<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/sodium-potassium-pump\/\">sodium-potassium pumps<\/a> needed to conduct an <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/action-potential\/\">action potential<\/a>.\u00a0To see the role of the nodes of Ranvier in conducting an action potential, see: <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/saltatory-conduction\/\">saltatory conduction<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121\" style=\"width: 381px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-121\" src=\"http:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Myelination-300x126.jpg\" alt=\"myelination\" width=\"381\" height=\"160\" srcset=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Myelination-300x126.jpg 300w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Myelination-768x324.jpg 768w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Myelination-360x152.jpg 360w, https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5864\/2016\/11\/Myelination.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><span style=\"font-size: 8pt\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 (&#8220;Conduction in a myelinated fiber&#8221;, 2012)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/glossary-of-terms\/\">Back to Glossary.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0Nodes of Ranvier are the regions on a myelinated axon between the myelin sheaths. These regions contain\u00a0the voltage-gated ion channels and sodium-potassium pumps needed to conduct an action potential.\u00a0To see the role of the nodes of Ranvier in conducting an <a href=\"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/2016\/11\/13\/nodes-of-ranvier\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":734,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/734"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":284,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eprojects.isucomm.iastate.edu\/314-4-kbcm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}